# The Call Of Earth

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth

## Quotes

> Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/coincidence-is-just.md)

> Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will — will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/money-only-buys.md)

> If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/if-i-wanted.md)

> It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/it-was-not.md)

> I have no way of knowing that your story is not true — but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me — your life, your view of life — is the lie.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/i-have-no-way.md)

> Stop threatening me... I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/stop-threatening-me-ive.md)

> Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/will-i-be-coming.md)

> How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/how-does-he.md)

> We are all fools when one wise man appears.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/we-are-all.md)

> Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/keep-me-alive.md)